§ The result
Braintrust AIR takes the total, Ashby takes more of the criteria.
Braintrust AIR holds a 3-point edge over Ashby under rubric v1.0, 59 to 56, across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Ashby leads more of the criteria, 3 against 2 for Braintrust AIR, yet Braintrust AIR takes Post-Market Monitoring, which carries 12% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ashby 42, Braintrust AIR 62 — and at a 12% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
§ The record
Ashby is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Braintrust AIR under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ashby | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · Braintrust AIR 62
2.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Braintrust AIR 75
2.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Braintrust AIR 35
1.1 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Braintrust AIR 58
1.0 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Braintrust AIR 56
0.3 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 75 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 63 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 59 (F) | -3 | -2.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Ashby | Braintrust AIR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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